On Tuesday Democratic Rep. Jared Polis joined Republican Rep. Scott Tipton in saying he wouldn’t support military action there in response to the use of chemical weapons.

Polis ran against the war in Iraq and, in a column in the Loveland Reporter-Herald ( http://bit.ly/19FydZb), he said he’s in a position to stop “another unnecessary war before it begins.”

He cited the possibility of killing innocent civilians in a strike and wariness over whether it might end up helping extremist rebels rather than more moderate fighters. He also said a strike wouldn’t make the United States safer.

The five other House members from Colorado haven’t announced their positions yet.

Spain came under repeated attack starting Thursday in what authorities called linked terrorist incidents, when a driver swerved a van into crowds in Barcelona’s historic Las Ramblas district, killing more than a dozen people and injuring scores of others. Early Friday, an attempted attack unfolded in a town down the coast

If there’s one superhero character whose rise might be most tied to the events of World War II, it is Captain America, who emerged from the minds of legends Joe Simon and Jack Kirby and sprung forth from an iconic 1941 debut cover on which Cap smacks Hitler right in the kisser.

A customer dining at Washington’s Oceanaire restaurant noticed an unusual line at the bottom of his receipt: “Due to the rising costs of doing business in this location, including costs associated with higher minimum wage rates, a 3% surcharge has been added to your total bill.”